![]() Cruelly coincidental it would seem if I wasn’t able to complete it due to a freak injury picked up just a couple of days ago, after surviving 878 miles of cycling. Concern was rife with a major objective the next day that had been planned for a while at great expense, and no real option to delay it. The next morning hiking about 1500m of vertical ascent to the Domhutte along stunning woodland trails, the pain sharper than before, and realising it hadn’t. ![]() ![]() A relative Julie and her partner Marcus had kindly been putting me up in Chamonix for the week so I was able to get a good kip. Able to ignore it, I plodded back to the lift and down to Chamonix, hoping a good sleep, stretching like a Buddha and anti-inflammatories would help. I’d been expecting an obstacle sooner or later, and coming down Mont Blanc du Tacul I must have taken an awkward twist which left me with a bad strain in my groin muscle, sending searing pain through my legs in every step. Having been in burnout for several weeks prior to the trip, I’d barely come round from the bike ride before I found myself trying to recollect some grit and focus to acclimatise my mind for the greatest vertical ascent in the Alps. It was straight into the mountains again, to the disgust of my leg musculature, in preparation for EPIC7 challenge number 4. After successfully cycling from Chester to Chamonix, there wasn’t much time to reflect, relax or enjoy the home comforts.
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